V. I. Lenin

Telegram To J. V. Stalinand A. G. Shlyapnikov

Tsaritsyn To People’s Commissars Stalin and Shlyapnikov

Written:11 June, 1918First Published:1931 inLenin MiscellanyXVIIISource:Lenin’sCollected Works, 4th English
    Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1972 Volume 27, page 447Translated:Clemens Dutt; Edited by Robert DaglishTranscription/HTML Markup:David Walters & Robert
    CymbalaOnline Version:Lenin Internet
    ArchiveMarch, 2002

I have received Stalin’s third telegram and note. We are taking all measures. Tsyurupa says money will be sent tomorrow without fail, and orders have been given for the goods to be loaded today. Send through trains with a triple guard. Arrest saboteurs and hooligans and send them here.

Chairman of the Council of People’s CommissarsLenin